Editor’s note: The following information was provided by the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana. It is one in a series of articles by PAR that the Daily Leader will print relating to the proposed Constitutional Amendments on the Nov. 6 ballot. Today’s article focuses on Constitutional Amendment No. 3. Articles may be edited for space.

Legislators who file bills before a regular legislative session must do so no later than 10 calendar days before the first day of the session. This is known as prefiling. Usually, prefiled bills are formally introduced on the first day of a session. A legislator may file five bills during a session and the Legislature’s rules make certain exceptions to allow more. Also, any proposed amendment to the Constitution must be prefiled at least 10 calendar days before the start of a legislative session.

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The Monroe Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a new presidency called to its leadership.

The new stake president is John Heim of West Monroe assisted by first counselor Jeremy Crook of Ruston and Second Counselor Walker Ross of Monroe.

The Monroe Stake is a geographical unit consisting of 10 different congregations covering an area from Winnfield in the southwest up to El Dorado, Arkansas and eastward over to Greenville, Mississippi.

Thanks to the local hospital auxiliary, Northern Louisiana Medical Center has received $30,000 worth of items designed to help making a visit to the hospital a more pleasant experience.

Curtis Newton, chief nursing officer, said the items purchased by the auxiliary includes a new defibrillator for the Intensive Care Unit, an ultrasound system designed to help personnel begin IVs more efficiently and less painfully, equipment for the nursery to allow employees to check babies’ blood with fewer sticks and textbooks to help with the continuing education of trauma nurses.